Patch "staging: android: ashmem: Fix lockdep issue during llseek" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    staging: android: ashmem: Fix lockdep issue during llseek

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     staging-android-ashmem-fix-lockdep-issue-during-llseek.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From cb57469c9573f6018cd1302953dd45d6e05aba7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:02:01 -0800
Subject: staging: android: ashmem: Fix lockdep issue during llseek

From: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>

commit cb57469c9573f6018cd1302953dd45d6e05aba7b upstream.

ashmem_mutex create a chain of dependencies like so:

(1)
mmap syscall ->
  mmap_sem ->  (acquired)
  ashmem_mmap
  ashmem_mutex (try to acquire)
  (block)

(2)
llseek syscall ->
  ashmem_llseek ->
  ashmem_mutex ->  (acquired)
  inode_lock ->
  inode->i_rwsem (try to acquire)
  (block)

(3)
getdents ->
  iterate_dir ->
  inode_lock ->
  inode->i_rwsem   (acquired)
  copy_to_user ->
  mmap_sem         (try to acquire)

There is a lock ordering created between mmap_sem and inode->i_rwsem
causing a lockdep splat [2] during a syzcaller test, this patch fixes
the issue by unlocking the mutex earlier. Functionally that's Ok since
we don't need to protect vfs_llseek.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10185031/
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/10/48

Acked-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Cc: Arve Hjonnevag <arve@android.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+8ec30bb7bf1a981a2012@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Acked-by: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c |   15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
@@ -330,24 +330,23 @@ static loff_t ashmem_llseek(struct file
 	mutex_lock(&ashmem_mutex);
 
 	if (asma->size == 0) {
-		ret = -EINVAL;
-		goto out;
+		mutex_unlock(&ashmem_mutex);
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	if (!asma->file) {
-		ret = -EBADF;
-		goto out;
+		mutex_unlock(&ashmem_mutex);
+		return -EBADF;
 	}
 
+	mutex_unlock(&ashmem_mutex);
+
 	ret = vfs_llseek(asma->file, offset, origin);
 	if (ret < 0)
-		goto out;
+		return ret;
 
 	/** Copy f_pos from backing file, since f_ops->llseek() sets it */
 	file->f_pos = asma->file->f_pos;
-
-out:
-	mutex_unlock(&ashmem_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from joelaf@google.com are

queue-3.18/staging-android-ashmem-fix-lockdep-issue-during-llseek.patch